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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-15
tCopsrig1a. 1887, oy TIE a. " Kellogg Nerspape,
Co7lpGny.1

PART IU.-CHAPTER HL-CoNTINUED.
81 can not 60 till have told you; it
would be cruel to keep you in ignorance
of what these horrible things mean.
You must know; you must be prepared
for the news that is on its way to you. :"
The poor woman stood rigid as q
statue, staring at him, held up from
falling only by the arms of Helen.
81 heard the a*ful noises all through
the night" he went on. they chilled
my blood with terror. fear not man,
but lay covering with alright at the
demons from another world. At last,
in the hellish revels, l became bold
enough to open my door and look out
into the hall. Horror of horrors! I
saw light coming up the stairs. l
heard the footballs of the man who car
ried it; it was ships lantern, held
high up at arms length, as if the bear
er wished to make sure of the way.
fell back into the chamber; the hideous
thing followed me. He stopped at the
stand, and laid something upon it.
Then he looked at me with the CHASTITY
face and dull eyes of the dead. He
looked at me. and pointed at the OBJ
jeet which he had placed upon the
stand. / looked that way, and l saw
that it was great seal-ring. He
made the circuit of the room slowly.
examining everything in it; then he
vanished through the doorway, and 1
lost sight of him..
..You saw his face" Mrs Willis
screamed. "Who was it?"
.You know-don't ask mo! Here is
what he left with me"
1t was massive ring with an onyx
stone, engraved with a Roman W
Mrs. Willis own gift to her husband,
which he had worn for ten years on his
little finger.
Helen was holding senseless form
in her arms.
Louis Hunter fastened away by the
back door.
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The Captains Money.
A ale of Buried Treasure, Cuban Revolt
and Adventure Upon the Seas.
BY JAMES FRANKLIN Fits.

IN -FOUR PARTS.
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"too expensive" and at last rigged her
self out, perfect guy, at some cheap slop-
shops i'll Market street. And after all
the care Jane and me took of her, giving up
our time and experience to her. she never SO
much as made Jane a single present" Popu-
lar opinion, which regarded Mrs. Stiver's at
tention as purely speculative, was not
shocked at this Improbable denouement; but
when Peg refused to give anything to clear
the mortgage off the new Presbyterian
church, and even declined to take shares in
the Union ditch, considered by many as an
equally sacred and safe investment, she be-
gar. to lose favor. Nevertheless, she seemed
to boa regardless of public opinion as she
had been before the trial; took small
house. in which she lived with an old woman
who had once been fellow servant, on ap-
parently terms of perfect equality, and
looked after her money. l wish l could say
that she did this discreetly; but the fact is,
she blundered. The same dogged per-
sistence she had displayed in claiming her
rights was visible in her unsuccessful ven
tures She sunk 100000 in a worn out
shaft originally projected by the deceased
testator; she prolonged the miserable exist
ence of The Rockville Vanguard long after
it had ceased to interest even its enemies;
she kept the doors of the Rockville hotel
open when its custom had departed; she lost
the cooperation and favor of a fellow capi-
taiist through trifing misunderstanding, in
which she was derelict and impenitent; she
I. Al.
have been settled for trife, / note these
defects to show that she was by no means a
heroine. | quote her affair with Jack Fol-
insbee to show she was scarcely the average
woman.
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As To Touching Persons.

As to touching persons, the rule is that
they are not to be touched at all, unless
they be both dear and on a fair equality.
If the love be very great, or the nearness
either, this of itself is equality, as between
parent and child who are parted by a
vast space of age and knowledge. But
even herein, touch viii be cautious in
public, especially by the younger, lest
due Observance and respect be overborne.
To be touched either is very delightful
and winsome or exceedingly repulsve
and hateful, and always annoyance has
the day unless there be true love accord
ing to the measure OF the touch, what
ever it may be. Wherefore it is seen
that persons who are pressed together
in a crowd or vehicle move apart
as soon as they can; which is not for
comfort merely, but SO as not to be
touched, for they will do the same in
cold weather, though the more pinched
for -Globe-Democrat.
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ryrs. ".Iennie Jnne,, CrnIv.

Jennie June has stepped into her new place
rs editor of Godey's Lady's Book and begun
her task as energetically as if she had not
thirty years or more of busy pen labor be-
hind her. Il have never known from the be-
ginning" she said few days ago, ''what it
was to have difficulty in finding work, but if
editors and newspaper readers have liked what
wrote, it must have been of their own kind
ness, for l have never set any value on it my
self" Mrs. Croly's daughter, Vida, is one of
the most promising pupils of the Lyceum
theatre school of acting.-New York Mail
and Express
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WOLF HUNTING IN AUSTRIA.
Chased by Whole Squadrons OF Infuriate
IL g.

Chased by Whole Squadrons OF Infuriated
Brutes-Exeiting Sport.
One generally waits to begin these hunts
till the season is sufficiently advanced to rem
der the animals infuriated by hunger and
ready for anything We used to start at 10
or II O'Clock in the night, choosing a moonlit
evening. Four OF our swiftest horses were
put to the sleigh whose management was con-
fided to prudent and steady old coachman
who had been in my husbands service for
ten years. All depends on the driver in thoss
expeditions, for if he loses his head, and al
lows the frightened horses to run away dur
ing the chase, one stands very good chance
of being thrown off the low sleigh and de-
voured by the hungry animals one seeks to
kill A bundle of straw is tied behind the
sleigh and allowed TO drag in the snow, and
you take with you young pig tied in
strong canvas bag. You have occasionally
to pinch the poor brute so that his squeaking
may attract the attention of the wolves and
make them pursue you i'll the hope of a
hearty supper.
When once arrived on the white, smooth
plain, the horses are started off at d gallop
ana you soon see whole squadrons of wolves
making for you at full speed. Their fiery
eyes glare in the semi-darkness like burning
Goals, and their low growing bay is enough
to unsettle the courage of all novices. As
soon as they are near enough you shoot them
with ball cartridges, and it is not unusual to
kill from 100 to 800 animals in one night.
There is no excitement comparable to this,
as ones life is continually hanging on thread
and the swiftneSs of the motion coupled with
the delight of success when one sees the ugly
beasts fall beneath the shots is enough to stir
the tamest blood.-~-z t2r~" 80 -
Ferdinand Ward, who is engaged in past
ing tobacco labels at Sing Sing, is called by
the warden a 'kicker and schemer"
Spelling matches are now at their height in
England. The guessing mania will probably
reach there i'll about ten years.
The Suez canal is to be made ready this
month for night traffic through its entire
length by steamers provided with electric
EoLt-
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family; others had felt perhaps too keenly
the deep responsibility resting upon them
when chosen from the panel as jurors, aad
had evaded their public duties; few had de
clined Office and low salary; but no one
shrank from the possibility of having been
called upon to assume the functions of Peggy
NofTat, the heiress.
The will was contested-first by the widow.
whom it now appeared had never been le-
.,alIv divorced from the deceased; next by
four Of h 'S cousins, who awoke, only too late,
to a conscious 'uess OF his moral and peenniary
worth. But the humble legatee-a singularly
plain, unpretending, uneducated western
Eirl-exhibited dot-Ged pertinacity in
claiming her rights She I. ,.iectad all compro-
misses A rough sense of justiCe In tpe COM
Inunity, while doubling her ability TO lake
care of the whole fortune, suggested ts'at she
ought to be content with 100000 "SSes
bound to throw even that away on some
,lerned skunk of a man, natoorally; but
three millions is too much to give
chap for maxim her unhappy. It's offerin'
temptation to Cussedness." The only
opposing voice to this counsel came from
the sardonic lips of Mr. Jack Hamlin. "Sup-
pose" suggested that gentleman, turning
abruptly on the speaker-"suppose, when
you won 100000 of me last Friday
night suppose that instead of handing
YOU over the money as l did-suppose I'd got
MP on my hind legs, and said, Look yer, Bill
Wethersbee, you're a id fool If l give
ye that twenty thousand, you'll throw it
away in the first skin game in Frisco, and
hand it over to the first short card sharp you'll
meet There's a thousand-enough for you
80 fling away,-take it and getr Suppose
what I'd said to you was the frozen truth,
and you know'd it, would that have been the
square thing to play on YOU" But here
Wethersbee quickly pointed out the inefii-
cheney of the comparison by stating that he
had won the money fairly with stake. "And
how do YOU know" demanded Hamlin SAY.
agely, bending his black eyes on the aston
ished casuist-"how do you know that the gal
hezn't put down a stakeg" The man stam-
mered an unintelligible reply. The gambler
laid his white hand ON Wethersbees shoulder.
s'I.ook here. old man." he said, "every gal
stakes her whole pile-you can bet your life
on that-whaIever's her little game. If she
took to keerIs instead of her feelings, If she'd
put up chips instead O. body and soul, she'd
sNust every bank 'twixt this and 'Friscol You
heav mef'
Somewhat of this idea was conveyed, I fear
mot uuite as sentimentally, to Peggy Moffat
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derned sight more nIeiy!-that you mayn't
be luckier yet, and he'll up and die afore he
gifts rid of your money. But L do say you'll
make him happy now; and, ez I reckon
you're about ez badly stuck after that chap
ez | ever saw any woman, you won't be
hurtin' your own feelin's either"
The blood left Pegs face as she looked up.
"But that's echy l can't give him the money
and he won't marry me without it"
Mr.. Hamlin's hand dropped from the last
button Of his waisteoat "Can't-give-him
-the-money!" he repeated, slowly.
"Non
"Why?"
"Because-because lore him"
Mr.. Hamlin rebuttoned his waistcoat and
sat down patiently on the bed Peg arose
and awkwardly drew the portmanteau a
little nearer to him.
"When Jim Byways left me this yer
property" she began, looking cautiously
around, che left it to me on conditions, not
conditions ez waz in his aUritten will, but
conditions ez waz spoken A promise 1
made him In this very room, Mr., Hamlin-
this very room, and on that very bed you're
sittin' on, in which he died.
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laugh, rose, trembling and with dlfucuIUy. Il
his swollen feet Hamlin eyed him narrow
ly, and then bade him lie down again s.To
morrow viii do" he said, and them -
"If DON'T -
'If you DON'T" responded Hamlin, "why
III just wade in and cut you outln
But on the morrow Mr.. Hamlin was spared
that possible act of disloyalty; for, in the
night, the already hesitating spirit of Mr.
Jack Folinsbee took fight ON the wings OF
the southeast storm. When or how it hap
pened, NOBODY knew. Whether this last ex-
citement, and the near prospect of matri-
mony, or whether an overdose of anodyne
had hastened his end, was never known /
only know that when they came to awaken
him the next morning the best that was left
of him-a face still beautiful and
boy hke-lopled up coldly at the
fearful eyes of Peg Moffat ''It
serves me right, it's Judgment" she said in
a low whisper to Jack Hamlin; 'for God
knew that I'd broken my word, and wille,l
all my property to him.
She did not long survive him. Whether
Mr.. Hamlin ever clothed with action the sug-
gestion indicated in his speech to the lamented
Jack that night is not of record He was
always her friend, and on her demise became
her executor. But the bulk of her property
was left to a distant relation of handsome
Jack Folinsbee, and SO passed out of the con
troll of Red Dog forever.
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A singular story was told me of the way in
which great maStlff who had never been in
the city manifested his opposition to being
taken" After some little trouble he was
placed IN position facing the instrument, and
remained quiet till the photographer pulled
the cloth from III front of his lens and let the
big glass eye stare at the huge dog This was
two much for the mastiff, who at once spranr
at the machine and pulled it down before his
owner could interfere to prevent his doing
any further damage. Then, after quoting
the animal and letting him see what was
wanted of him, he submitted calmly TO being
''taken," and was so pleased with his photo
graph that q copy is kept in his kennel firmly
fastened by frame and covered by glass,
which prevents him from exercising his pro-
pensity to lick it with his tongue Boston
Post
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The Rev. DR.. Forbes. of st. Paul, plain
spoken person and practical Christian, tells
this story; "A young man of the Young
Mems Christian association gave a starving
woman tract and nothing more, and told
lawyer aiterward that he had never seen
such spirit of Christian resignation as that
woman manifested in receiving the tract.
Then the lawyer swore at him. l think that
if there was ever time for swearing then it
was. God would surely pardon it. If l am
hungry and a fellow offers me bread and
prayers, win take the bread and do my own
praying New York Sun
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THE END.
NORTH CAROLINA WOMEN FOLKS.'
4ypieaI Housewife of the Old North
State-Family Life.

sypical Housewife of the Old North
state-Family Life.
The North Carolina women folks"
lead very different lives from those in
the New England or middle states. A
recent visitor gives the following account
of the typical housewife in the old
North State, which is of interest: The
old lady and her daughters, with their
own hands, make nearly all the clothes
the family has. There was time when
the old woman spun the thread and
wove the cloth, and she maintains now
that there is no other thread so good to
darn with as the thread of her own spin
ming. So she keeps her old spinning
wheel for occasional use and for spiritual
comfort, and last year she gathered cot
ton from the field, which she followed
with her own fingers on its long journey
from the stalk to the stocking.
The housework and the gardening
are the only employment of the women,
but they seems always to be busy. Once
week they boil the clothes in a pot sus-
pended from the tops of three poles,
which are placed in the front yard near
the well. The monotony of wash-day is
often relieved by fishing for the bucket
with the pot hooks. Cooking is a very
simple thing, for the frying-pan ard the
pot do their whole duty. Indeed, the
frying pan is the origin of all their all
ments, certainly of the old lady's dys-
pepsia, of the children's thin, gristly
faces and the oldest boys necessity for
grog. Fried bacon for early breakfast
will postpone the millennium anywhere,
add TO that fried sweet potatoes, and an
active outdoor life and a perfect atmos-
phare must do their best to keep natur-
ally robust people from groans.
The frying pan is a worse enemy of
man in all this country than whisky or
politics. When all the ground is yell
low with mellow apples, and the odor Of
peaches and grapes is blown over every
breakfast-table, nobody eats fruit except
"between meals" and the very chickens
have the pleasure of life taken because
neither boiler nor oven awaits one of
them, but always the frying-pan. In thu
evening after supper and before early
bedtime the boys sometimes play on
their fiddles, their feet accompanying
the three tunes they know, "The Arkan-
saw Traveller" Fishers Hornpipe," and
''The Old North State" while the rest of
the family hold their hands in silence,
and many an evening these fine intelli-
gent adults sit the livelong hours hold
ing their hands, saying now and then a
Word, as if by accident, and pretending
to do nothing; yet they are happy. The
art of resting has not been so well culti-
waited anywhere else, True, the old
woman does ply her knitting needles,
stopping now and then to remark, while
she rubs snuff, that her old bones feel
"strealzs" Of rheumatism, but that it is
hard to wear out an old leather string
The girls sometimes have cuttings, and
there are the parties" of country soci-
ety.-Ben: Perley Poore.
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"Travel to Europe will bo very heavy this
summer" said a trunk manufacturer. Il
am sure of this, because there is such big
demand for stateroom trunks, steamer chairs,
travelling rugs and all the other parapherna-
lia common to fashionable and wealthy tour
lists. Young women particularly are evidently
going abroad quite numerously. They come
in here every day for small trunks, hand
sachels and steamer chairs The demand for
these latter articles has grown so great thai
every trunk store nowadays has few of
them setting around for sale."-New York
Sun.
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There was strange meeting in the throng-
ing mass in front of the Royal exchange the
other day. Here from early morning till
late night is a constant procession :of people
There is no place in Londsn where the crowd
is so dense or where there is such a variety Of
people to be met. Right in the heart of this
throng at l o'clock the other day brother
living in Egypt met q brother living in New
York. The brother living in Egypt was on
his way to call at banking house in the city,
while the New York brother was on his way
to the continent Neither knew that the
other was III England at-the time, and their
meeting in the midst of this great strug.
Cling crowd upon line where seconds diff
ference would have resulted in their passing
by each other is marvel of accidental meet
ing which | do not think can be very easily
matched again.-London Letter.
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A Man with an Appetite.

There is a funny little old man in Essex,
Mass, who is always eating. Three meals a
day are only an aggravation to his appetite,
He will rise at 2 o'clock in the morning and
eat slice OF meat, some eggs, several pieces
of bread, cut of ham and perhaps a few pota-
toes. At o'clock he eats hearty breakfast.
AT 0 he has another. About 10 he begins to
grow hungry again. And SO, like an aveng-
ing Nemesis, hunger chases him day and
night He is always craving food, and YET
more than one reputable physician says the
rlan is perfectly well.-Boston Transcript.
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The .Ncw England, COLONY,

1t seems rather a pity TO draw Off some cf
the best and most enterprising elements of
our population TO western colonies, but the
formation of such colonies continues at more
or less regular intervals. There is now form
ing one which is now called the New England
colony, and which proposes to found, in west
ern Dakota, town to be named New Eng
land City, where the streets will be called
after the names of New England states and
our public men.-Boston Transcript
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Miss WoIfe's Kindness,

1t would be of interest to know how many
young women Miss Catherine Wolfe ass isted
through Vassar, and how many of her benefit
ciaries were as ignorant of the source of their
help as a girl student whom the writer ran
across the other day. A petite little senior
just home for her Easter vacation, she only
learned on the day of Miss Wolfe's funeral
how it came about that her aunt had mystic
riously been able to give her college educa-
ton and meet the constantly recurring tut
ton bills.-Eew York Mail and Express.
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The police department of New FORK is not
prejudiced evidently in the matter Of selec-
tions for "the finest" Thirty seven additions
to the ranks were made recentlyon probation.
-Four OF the number were machinists, four
were clerks, ten were conductors or drivers
OF cars or trucks, three were teamsters, two
were blacksmlths, two were agents one q
printer, one butcher, one a rigger, one "a
Waterman, one neWsman, one a gateman
one a booRkeeper, one an undertaken, one a
fireman, one a milkman, one a cutter, and
one stairbuilder-Ch Chicago Times
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The World tells a story of two. youthful
Bostonians of "good families aged and Q
years, who were so impressed by that famous
work, "Foxs Book Of Martyrs" that they de-
termined to initiate the events therein mar
rated. Did they, then, proceed to sit upon
gridirons, or to twist each Others noses with
pincers! Not much, 1t was not the martyrs
but the executioners they wanted to emulate.
They accordingly captured two pet pullets
belonging to neighbor, and, "tying them to
stake, built fire and roasted them to
death" 1t is not stated, but it is most
sincerely TO be hoped, that the parents Of
these youths treated them to a little martyr
dam on their own account-New Orleans
Times Democrat,
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Charles Deubler, of Dawson, Ga, has a
shepherd dog that drives his chickens up at
night About sundown the dog begins his
rounds over the premises, and never stops
until every fowl is driven up and is in the hen
house. If chicken shows disposition not
retire to its roosting place the dog drives it IN
the hen house and stands guard at the door
until the chicken takes perch on the roost.
Chicago Herald,
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Customer-Isn't it a triAe large. Levi?
Levi -Larch, mine trent? S'heip me
gracious! uf you geeps dot shpring goat
on, unit yoIr wife sees it, your bosom viii
schwell NIT pride SO dot she'll hef to set
dem buttons forwards.-Puck.
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enterprise and en-
ergy of that young
and thriving settle
ment, that there
was not probably
a single citizen who
did not feel him
self better able to
control tho d G..
ceased humorist's
property. Som Q
had EXPIRE IS e d a
doubt of their abil-
H. - ,.,,,,,AR.f a
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California Wines.

The Palace hotel, of San Francisco, is try
ing to popularize California wines by putting
them in the place of honor on its wine list
and by supplying the best and soundest vim
tages at very reasonable prices.
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During the past winter Mrs. Mary Miller,
Of Hillsborough, N. H., fed daily eight gray
squirrels which came to her door from the
woods every morning and departed after
having had thsir breakfast.
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The Tide of Travel.

It is said the tide of travel across, the At
iantic has set liz SO strongly toward Europe
that some of the steamships have been forced
to suspend the issue of eastward tickets